Dee Perez-Scott: Here's just a few programs that could be cut to help solve the fiscal mess

• Grants to special interest groups like La Raza, $5 million.
• Repatriate all illegal aliens who are not essential to our economy, $14 billion in Savings.
• Modify interpretation of 14th amendment to exclude the offspring of illegal aliens
• Strengthen the DREAM Act by requiring a 4 year enlistment in the armed forces.
• Add audit, enforcement and penalty provisions to the DREAM Act.
• Deny admission to the U.S. for all non-citizen women who are or who become pregnant.
• Stabilize and then deport illegal aliens with medical conditions.
• Make e-verification mandatory for all employers and employees.
• Require all schools, hospitals, emergency rooms, etc. to determine the immigration status of everyone who is admitted or treated.
• Reduce legal immigration to 250,000 per year focused on the skills America needs to stay competitive.
• Level the playing field for all immigration applicants; adult relatives of citizens should enjoy no priority over other applicants; count all against the overall quota.
• National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
• Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings.
• Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
• Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
• U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
• Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
• Repeal EO 13166, $10 million annual savings
• Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
• John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
• Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
• Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
• Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings
• Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
• Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
• Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
• Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
• Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
• New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
• Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings
• Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
• Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
• Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
• Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
• Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
• Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
• Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
• Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
• Economic Assistance to Egypt. $250 million annually.
• U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
• General Assistance to District of Columbia. $210 million annual savings.
• Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
• Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
• No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
• End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
• IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
• Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.
• Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
• Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
• Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
• Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
• Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings
• Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
• USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
• Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).$93 million annual savings.
• Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
• Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
• Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings..
• HUD Ph.D. Program.
• Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
• TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

Dee Perez-Scott: Here's what the authorities say about the national debt and perennial budget deficits

“Given America’s difficult economic circumstances and parlous fiscal condition, military spending . . . can and should expect closer, harsher scrutiny.”
—SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES

“This country cannot continue to run trillion-dollar deficits. We’re now looking at in excess of one trillion dollars, the likelihood is we’ll go to two-trillion-dollar deficits. We cannot do that and expect that we can remain a powerful nation . . . This country will not have the resources to confront the problems that we need to confront for the future.” —DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE LEON PANETTA, 2009

“Unless our rates of expenditure are sharply reduced, we will bring on the type of collapse that will leave us defenseless before our foe. Excessive expenditures thus become the chief menace to our national security.” —PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER